My family entered plastics distribution and fabrication in 1968. Dad listened to the guy in "The Graduate" and bought in. I was a teen with access to a shop filled with Plexiglas® Acrylic sheets, Lexan®, Plastic Sheets & Fiberglass sheet. Add UHMW, PTFE, plastic glue, Multiwall polycarbonate, Seaboard, architectural and engineering plastics. 40 years later I educate our team on new materials and processes - to customers worldwide. It’s new every day.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Plexiglass Wine Rack project

Now THIS is cool.

Our portion of this rack is the central core of clear and frost Plexiglas acrylic sheet along with the cast acrylic tubes used to hold the wine bottles.

This rack was fabricated from 1/2" thick clear acrylic sheet on the outside layer, and then the same thickness of Plexiglas Frost acrylic sheet.

Holes were routed (by hand) into the inner and outer layers to support the clear cast acrylic tubes that will hold the wine bottles. This tubing has a 3/8" thick wall.